摘要：

Each country currently experiencing an AIDS epidemic did not believe that the epidemics would develop but they did and more than 6 million people have since died. However if the governments of the approximately 2.3 billion people who live in developing countries where HIV/AIDS has not yet spread to the general population together with the international community and nongovernmental organizations act promptly many lives will be saved. The World Bank publication "Confronting AIDS: Public Priorities in a Global Epidemic" brings for the first time an economic perspective to the problem of AIDS. The author considers how developing country governments should respond to the AIDS epidemic when they also face so many other major and pressing problems related to raising more than 1 billion people out of severe poverty. While AIDS is an important problem which must be immediately addressed using resources to help people with AIDS will come at the expense of other objectives such as sending children to school providing safe drinking water and building infrastructure. The serious nature of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and what governments should do are considered.

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